Archive | January, 2005

30 January 2005 Comments Off

War on Terror 2011

I found this via one of my Google News Alerts.   I think its worth reading.  It was published in an Australian paper – The Age – the site requires a registratrion (free) to access some stuff so its reproduced here without pictures.

A leading expert on counter-terrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror - [...]

23 January 2005 Comments Off

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Brian’s grandmother passed away this morning at 8:30am.  We don’t know when the funeral is yet so not sure if we will be going up for it yet.  His mom called this morning to let us know she had died and to stress that if we weren’t able to get away from work to get up [...]

23 January 2005 Comments Off

Union Commercials on TV

Brian and I were just talking….
When did national labor unions stop having TV commercials?  I remember them from when I was a kid -  legions of garment workers singing about looking for the Union Label when shopping.   I’m not sure how effective they were at the time in terms of making consumers think about how [...]

22 January 2005 Comments Off

Foreshadowing

I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick ‘Americans’ as their mascot. — Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

19 January 2005 Comments Off

The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences

stolen from everyone.

Verbal/Linguistic

96%

Intrapersonal

93%

Interpersonal

79%

Visual/Spatial

79%

Logical/Mathematical

57%

Musical/Rhythmic

39%

Bodily/Kinesthetic

25%

The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligencescreated with QuizFarm.com